SIG'rs... Here's my second problem -- a major one. In July, my wife's friend came for a visit and asked to use our home computer to check her email. The friend has zip knowledge of what to do and not to do. If she gets spam, she'll click on the unsubscribe button thereby confirming the address' existence. During the same time frame, I failed to notice that my Norton Anti-Virus software ran out of its year of definition upgrades the week before. As the result, several viruses downloaded themselves onto my computer. When I discovered the definitions lapse a month later, I resubscribed, and downloaded the new definitions. Norton found and fixed all but one virus. The last one was memory resident and even glitched Norton itself. I took my machine to a local shop where they found the Exploit x2 virus. The virus was causing problems with the programs on my C drive, but no problems on my separate D drive with all my data. When the shop got rid of the virus, the C drive worked fine, but the D drive was a mess. Of course, there are files -- important files -- on the drive that I didn't have a backup of. While I could access the C drive without problem, clicking on the D drive froze the system. I finally was able to look at the D drive through another machine via the network. All but two directory folders were visible. I was able to transfer the files from three directories over the network to the other computer. While the folders of the rest were there, the files weren't. Two directory folders aren't there, but I suspect the files are. The amount of used disk space on the drive seems to be correct. I contacted DriveSavers in San Francisco about getting the data back. A friend had used them. The problem with them is the cost -- $600-1200. All the lost files on the D drive is for our church and some for my kid's school. I can't afford the money, and neither can they. Right now, the drive is disconnected. Nothing has been written or erased on it. The drive is a Maxtor 30-gig. Does anyone have suggestions or enough expertise that I could send you the drive for data recovery. I know all the directory structures and what the file names are that I need. As I said, everything that is important is for our church and school. There are some personal files, but I can do without those. There is one thing I haven't tried yet for fear of screwing it up. That's trying to access the D drive via DOS. Should I give that a try? ...Doug Pizac